10 quotes found
“Most of the world's problems will be solved if literacy prevailed.”
“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.”
“Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them. And you can...”
“Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.”
“I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.”
“Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democrac...”
“This is the book, then , and the book of Shakespeare. And every day you must read a page of each to your child--even though you yourself do not understand what is written down and cannot sound the ...”
“Books are great meals for the mind!”
“SUPPORT LITERACY! A child who cannot read cannot text.”
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
